Black bars on the sides or top of the avatar to make them all the same.  Like a full screen image on a widescreen tv (and vice versa).  The border itself would be unified.  

edit:  Just redefine the border restrictions in the Avatar creation section where they'll all be created the same size to begin with.

Not sure, we have had a lot of guest and lurkers in the past. People who sign in every once in a while to make a comment or something else.  But yeah, still probably not 500 unique.

Visibility. The poll is a visually distinct feature that also seems fairly popular, so it's a nice highlight of the community side of things here. Individual threads are easier to miss, even when marked important. I don't strongly object to making polls forum-based if they're marked important and important threads stay at the top on the front page, but it would be nice if such a visually distinct and seemingly popular feature was available on the front page. Another aspect is that clicking on a thread marks the posts as read, so clicking on a poll thread also imposes more involvement than just clicking a poll on the front page.

Yes, exactly this! But preferably visually a bit nicer, maybe akin to the generation selector below Consoles Hardware Sales?

You can easily define maximum dimensions for pictures on websites, so some sort of site restrictions on the front page would probably be pretty easy (unless there's surprises). Off the top of my head, I think it just stretches the picture to fit the wanted size, so if e.g. cropping is wanted instead, that might require something trickier (or not; not sure if there's ways to tell the browser how the size restriction should be imposed).

Just going to ask those who actually have a review visible on the front page which is across a period of 9 months.

@Darwinianevolution @firebush03 @Alex_The_Hedgehog @HoloDust @UnderwaterFunktown 

Would you guys be less likely to do reviews if they no longer displayed on the front page or would it not bother you?

Would you be happy if instead it automatically generated a post to your wall that you've reviewed a game?

That actually was that, Lol. I don't know shit about this stuff so I just copy/pasted the HTML code from that box in place of the scroller, haha, it looks different though because I think Bandorr just gave it a dark theme literally in the past few hours.

I ripped this one from the settings though.

Do you think that box looks better or worse than...

(Can pretty it up after).

The first one looks better to me, mainly because there's rounded shapes below it as well and elsewhere on the site too. Otherwise I don't have strong feelings, although in general it would be nice if similar elements looked the same (at least on the same page, and preferably across the whole site as well).

Did the site crash? I have not been able to get to front page all day.

Since I do official reviews now I probably sadly won't do anymore Funktown Reviews regardless (but you never know). I think it's nice to have it on the front page though, just takes up a bit much space and is very static since few people use it.

Talking with Machina we are looking at making some changes to the front page:

• Move the drop down for the hardware section below each chart and add a drop down for the "Monthly Hardware" section.
• Move Prediction League to bottom of right column / bottom of the one tall column on mobile.
• Remove Community section or lower the number from 8 to 5 so it takes up less space.
• Have avatars same size on the Forums section if easy enough to do.
• Change the Forums scroll for each section to a drop down (?).
• Remove Zergnet. (If you use adblock you won't see it, but it appears below the "Latest Stories" section).

Bandorr has updated the hardware charts on the front page. The drop down for the "Weekly Hardware" has been moved to below the chart and a new drop down for the "Monthly Hardware" has been added that lets you see the last 6 months of hardware figures.

Edit: Bandorr has cleaned up the "Community Contributions" section on the front page, so it is far less busy than before.